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What is the difference between computer science and computer engineering? I heard that computer engineering is more hands-on. Can you give me more details on other differences?

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Joanne’s Answer

Science is more theory. You'll learn about hardware and software.
Engineering is more hands on. You'll get to play with creating computer systems and learn about their inner workings.
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Zaid’s Answer

They have a lot of commonalities between them. Traditionally, in computer engineering you deal with hardware, and writing software to enable hardware while computer science was writing software applications that are more or less agnostic of the hardware, like mentioned above databases, websites....etc. However those two fields are more connected and intertwined now
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Subbaiah’s Answer

Computer science focuses mostly on troubleshooting issues on a software level. Expect to learn different programming languages,
how to work with operating systems and how to maintain databases, integrating applications, design websites and many more.

Computer engineering focuses on solving problems and designing hardware and software interfaces; just like a support engineer
who helps you make your computer/laptop working when its gone dead.
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